The Dark Side of The Sun (2017)

Scientists and engineers who built the world's largest solar telescope and launched the first solar probe into space help predict and prepare the planet for solar storms.

Need music to chill out to? How about Chill House Session Volume I, an 80-track intense feeling of warmth and pleasure, for people of all sizes and depths

Bassist/composer Petros Klampanis has absorbed a vibrant palette of colors over the course of a varied musical life journey, including Mediterranean and Balkan folk music of his native Greece, classical colorings of studies in Athens, Amsterdam and New York City, and vibrant splashes of musical pigment developed on the diverse NYC jazz scene through collaborations with such innovators as Greg Osby, Jean-Michel Pilc, Shai Maestro, Oded Tzur and Ari Hoenig.

Toothless is Ed Nash, who plays bass in Crouch End electro-janglers Bombay Bicycle Club and should maybe claim a promotion on the basis of this enjoyable side-project. His classically inflected lyrics, finger-picked guitars and darkly playful sense of melody draw on the English psych traditions of Syd Barrett, Badly Drawn Boy, Simian, etc. Sisyphus works as a one-man duet, its dual melodies charmingly jostling for position; on You Thought I Was Your Friend, the phased drums and buzzing bass push us into more unsettling climes, the chorus hook offering: “I want to hurt you”. There’s a cutesy evasiveness to his vocals, multiply-tracked and mixed low as if to preclude intimacy – but the more dulcet moments (such as The Midas Touch, a duet with Tom Fleming of The Staves) can still cast a spell. The shadowy harmonies of Sun’s Midlife Crisis - “Every day must pass away” - sound uncannily like the moment a summer evening turns dark and cold and the games must be packed away.

Rhino Records Presents Rock Classics: The Collection 3CD album 80 original hits by the original artists. Includes tracks by ZZ Top, The Darkness, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, Faith No More, Iron Butterfly, Whitesnake more.

Female Voices From Rock And Metal is a 2017 compilation, featuring 120 songs dedicated to the strong side of hard music, if not stronger. Some of the artists featured include Joan Jett, Envy, Vixen, The Murder Of My Sweet, Sinead O'Connor, Evanescence and many more.